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DRAFTED MASONRY

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 465 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DRAFTED See also:

MASONRY , in See also:architecture, the See also:term given to large stones, on the See also:face of which has been dressed See also:round the edge a draft or sunken See also:surface, leaving the centre portion as it came from the See also:quarry. The dressing is worked with an See also:adze of eight See also:teeth to the See also:inch, used in a See also:vertical direction and to a width of 2 to 4 in. The earliest example of drafted masonry is found in the immense See also:platform built by See also:Cyrus 530 B.C. at See also:Pasargadae in See also:Persia. It occurs again in the See also:palace of See also:Hyrcanus, known as the Arak-el-Emir (176 B.C.), but is there inferior in See also:execution. The finest drafted masonry is that dating from the See also:time of See also:Herod, in the See also:tower of See also:David and the walls of the Haram in See also:Jerusalem, and at See also:Hebron. In the castles built by the Crusaders, the adze has been worked in a See also:diagonal direction instead of vertically. In all these examples the See also:size of the stones employed is some-times enormous, so that the traditional See also:influence of the Phoenician masons seems to have lasted till the 12th See also:century.

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